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TruckWatch wins cash boost for expansion into Yorkshire
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The pioneering anti-freight-crime initiative has received enough funding to take on a full-time
manager. Guy Sheppard reports.
THE TRUCKWATCH truckcrime scheme is to be extended throughout Yorkshire and Humberside after receiving funding from the regional development agency for a full-time manager.
The scheme is due to be launched next month with support from police chiefs from all four forces in the region.
This follows the recent decision by Truck Watch leaders in Norfolk and Suffolk to merge (CM 20 July).
PC Glen G laves. liaison officer for police watch schemes in South Yorkshire, says around £50,000 is being provided by the Yorkshire Forward development agency.
The launch date was due to have been July but were holding off a little bit in the hope of getting a grant from Europe," he explains.
The manager will set up and run the scheme for 18 months until ownership is handed over to local hauliers and the Sheffield-based charity People United Against Crime (PUAC).
PUAC has run Truck Watch in South Yorkshire since 1997, estab lishing it as the most successful Truck Watch scheme in the UK.
Truck Watch has also expanded into East Anglia.
Tony Allen, chairman of the new Eastern Region Truck Watch, says one of its first aims is to use a phone messaging service called Police Direct to alert hauliers and their drivers in Norfolk and Suffolk about stolen vehicles "Better communication and early notification to drivers means that stolen vehicles can by spotted by drivers out on the road at the earliest opportunity," he adds.
Annual membership will cost £20 per company; the combined membership of the two schemes i5 currently about 70 firms.